domestic terrorism
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New York Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar
According to the Associated press, a man in western New York has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota. Federal prosecutors announced Patrick Carlineo Jr. was arrested after making a threatening call to Omar’s Washington, D.C. office last month. Omar, among the first of two Muslim women to serve in…
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Three Black Churches Burned in One Louisiana Parish
Harkening back to darker days, authorities believe a common culprit may have resorted to a tried and true intimidation tactic. Federal authorities are lending a hand after a pattern of destruction has emerged. According to the New York Times, one Louisiana parish has seen three historically black churches burned in less than two weeks. The…
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Why Won't Congress Take Domestic Terrorism Seriously?
Just hours before a deranged white man stormed two New Zealand mosques and killed some 49 people, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sent his third letter to the FBI and the Justice Department asking for a committee briefing on the “evolving threat of domestic terrorism.” His first two requests had been ignored. According to HuffPost, the…
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White Supremacist Coast Guard Lieutenant Accused of Plotting Terrorist Attack to 'Establish a White Homeland'
A U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist is expected to appear before a judge Thursday afternoon on weapons and drugs charges related to a terrorist attack he was plotting. Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, of Silver Spring, Md., is accused of stockpiling weapons and ammunition to attack journalists and politicians. Hasson’s ultimate goal, according…
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Alabama Newspaper Publisher Calls for KKK to 'Night Ride Again' and 'Clean Out' D.C.—with Nooses in Tow
In what continues to be a truly wild February for the books, the publisher of a small-town Alabama paper published an op-ed calling for the Klu Klux Klan to clean out Washington, D.C.—nooses preferred. The Valentine’s Day op-ed (after all, what better way to express your love of democracy by inciting the optics of a…
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Who Broke a Record for Extremist Killings in 2018? (Spoiler Alert: It Was White People)
In 2018, as President Donald “Both Sides” Trump continued to equivocate about white supremacist terrorists, and while former Justice Department Chief and heir to the Keebler Elf empire Jeff Sessions hunted down Black Identity Extremists (who proved to be as elusive as the mythical Bigfoot), radicalized white racists enjoyed a banner year for killing Americans.…
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39 Domestic Terrorists Arrested in White Supremacist Gang Sting
In an effort to clean up the white community, federal and state authorities in Florida have arrested 39 members of white supremacist gangs and confiscated guns, explosives and even a rocket launcher in what may stand as one of the biggest racist thug gang’s mass arrests until the end of the Robert Mueller investigation. But…
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Are White Men America's Biggest Terror Threat? We Checked
“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.” – Don Lemon, CNN text Despite the fact that the FBI and Homeland Security acknowledged that white supremacist groups had carried…
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10 Ways To Defeat Hate And Terror With Love
Even for a 2018 filled with tragedy and terror, last week was particularly brutal. There were the assassination attempts on prominent Democrats and critics of the president. A white man shot and killed two black people at a grocery store in Kentucky. That man tried to enter a black church first, but the doors, fortunately,…